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Timing is everything. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the NAACP convention this week in Orlando, not far from where Trayvon Martin was killed in February 2012 and where the killer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted late Saturday night.

Talk about preaching to the choir. Mr. Holder, the nation’s first black attorney general, told the country’s leading civil rights group about speaking to his 15-year-old regarding how the boy should behave if stopped by police. He equated it to a potential life-saving conversation. George Zimmerman is not a police officer, but that night he was armed.

During his speech, Mr. Holder called on the Florida Legislature to change the 2005 “stand your ground” law. Mr. Zimmerman did not invoke the law in his claim of self-defense, but the law makes self-defense an even stronger defense than it had been. And to those who believe that Mr. Zimmerman was wrongfully acquitted, the law remains the symbol of what they consider a racially biased justice system.

The panel Gov. Rick Scott convened to study “stand your ground” recommended only minor changes. The panel included the two original sponsors of the law.

Those protesting the Zimmerman verdict have gone to Gov. Scott’s office to demand a special session on the law. That is unlikely.

Gov. Scott said he does not favor repealing or seriously altering the law. But the nationwide criticism could persist, even if the Justice Department does not file a civil right case against Mr. Zimmerman. And Mr. Holder does have a powerful pulpit.

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